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America's Jail Crisis: Budget-strapped counties are being crushed by the costs of incarceration. But there are solutions.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

America's Jail Crisis Jesse Bogan, 07.13.09 Budget-strapped counties are being crushed by the costs of incarceration. But there are solutions. Forbes.com HOUSTON -- Out the 20th floor window of the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, the sprawl and elevation of buildings look like the campus of a law enforcement university, filling up the northeast corner of downtown. A juvenile justice center as big as a hospital. Two high-rise courthouses. An overrun booking tank. Beneath it all, tunnels run like veins through the complex, filled with inmates shuffling to hearings from the third biggest jail in America. An average of 10,000 inmates were held per day in the Harris County Jail in 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, not including an additional 1,100 bused six hours to and from northern Louisiana...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 14, 2009 (boomark / email).